François Michonneau
@francoismichonneau.net
👨💻 Solutions Engineer @posit.co
🧑🏫 Previously Voltron Data, The Carpentries
🌍 Global, remote, inclusive leadership
📈 Empowering others to get the most out of their data
📦 #Rstats developer
🏡 Bed & Breakfast host
🧑🏫 Previously Voltron Data, The Carpentries
🌍 Global, remote, inclusive leadership
📈 Empowering others to get the most out of their data
📦 #Rstats developer
🏡 Bed & Breakfast host
Reposted by François Michonneau
Did you know there are two contests happening right now? ✨
📊 Table Contest: use any #RStats or #Python package.
📈 Plotnine Contest: use the Plotnine #Python package.
Show off your skills, share your work, and earn some well-deserved open-source cred!
Learn more: posit.co/blog/announc...
📊 Table Contest: use any #RStats or #Python package.
📈 Plotnine Contest: use the Plotnine #Python package.
Show off your skills, share your work, and earn some well-deserved open-source cred!
Learn more: posit.co/blog/announc...
Want to win the 2025 Table Contest? Get inspired by @bamattre.bsky.social's interactive table, which turns the Board Game Geek database into a practical tool ✨
His entry: bamattre.github.io/boardgames/
Submit your table using any #RStats or #Python package!
Details: github.com/rich-iannone...
His entry: bamattre.github.io/boardgames/
Submit your table using any #RStats or #Python package!
Details: github.com/rich-iannone...
September 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Did you know there are two contests happening right now? ✨
📊 Table Contest: use any #RStats or #Python package.
📈 Plotnine Contest: use the Plotnine #Python package.
Show off your skills, share your work, and earn some well-deserved open-source cred!
Learn more: posit.co/blog/announc...
📊 Table Contest: use any #RStats or #Python package.
📈 Plotnine Contest: use the Plotnine #Python package.
Show off your skills, share your work, and earn some well-deserved open-source cred!
Learn more: posit.co/blog/announc...
Reposted by François Michonneau
📣We're hosting a rainbowR conference, to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and to showcase examples of working with LGBTQ+ data 🌈🎉 To help us plan, if you'd be interested in attending or speaking, please fill in this very short form (1-2 mins) docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0...
Interested in a rainbowR Conference?
rainbowR (https://rainbowr.org) is hosting a virtual conference (tentative date: February 26, 2026). The aim of the conference is to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the R community, and to showca...
docs.google.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
📣We're hosting a rainbowR conference, to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and to showcase examples of working with LGBTQ+ data 🌈🎉 To help us plan, if you'd be interested in attending or speaking, please fill in this very short form (1-2 mins) docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0...
Reposted by François Michonneau
At @okfn.bsky.social we are looking for a short-term R Developer. The work is exciting and important, advancing a humanitarian mission! Apply or share with others!
Senior R Developer – Jobs & Opportunities – Open Knowledge Foundation
okfn.org
September 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
At @okfn.bsky.social we are looking for a short-term R Developer. The work is exciting and important, advancing a humanitarian mission! Apply or share with others!
Reposted by François Michonneau
tidyverse blog: Breaking down language barriers in data science
nanonext is a messaging and concurrency toolkit, connecting R to polyglot data science pipelines involving modules written in Python, Rust, Go and C++ etc.
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...
#RStats #tidyverse
nanonext is a messaging and concurrency toolkit, connecting R to polyglot data science pipelines involving modules written in Python, Rust, Go and C++ etc.
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...
#RStats #tidyverse
nanonext 1.7.0
nanonext is a communications and concurrency toolbox that facilitates fast, powerful and reliable data exchange in polyglot data science workflows.
www.tidyverse.org
September 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
tidyverse blog: Breaking down language barriers in data science
nanonext is a messaging and concurrency toolkit, connecting R to polyglot data science pipelines involving modules written in Python, Rust, Go and C++ etc.
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...
#RStats #tidyverse
nanonext is a messaging and concurrency toolkit, connecting R to polyglot data science pipelines involving modules written in Python, Rust, Go and C++ etc.
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...
#RStats #tidyverse
Reposted by François Michonneau
I’ve been working on an update to the #quarto R package for weeks. I hope it improves your #rstats workflow with Quarto.
Lots of new helpers and tooling beyond the usual CLI wrappers. I believe some functions will be really useful!
Looking forward to your feedback!
github.com/quarto-dev/q...
Lots of new helpers and tooling beyond the usual CLI wrappers. I believe some functions will be really useful!
Looking forward to your feedback!
github.com/quarto-dev/q...
July 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I’ve been working on an update to the #quarto R package for weeks. I hope it improves your #rstats workflow with Quarto.
Lots of new helpers and tooling beyond the usual CLI wrappers. I believe some functions will be really useful!
Looking forward to your feedback!
github.com/quarto-dev/q...
Lots of new helpers and tooling beyond the usual CLI wrappers. I believe some functions will be really useful!
Looking forward to your feedback!
github.com/quarto-dev/q...
Reposted by François Michonneau
🎉 Big news! After 5+ years of consulting work under the R for the Rest of Us name, I'm launching Clarity Data Studio.
The name confusion was real – people thought we only did courses, not knowing about our consulting work building reports, websites, and more.
The name confusion was real – people thought we only did courses, not knowing about our consulting work building reports, websites, and more.
July 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
🎉 Big news! After 5+ years of consulting work under the R for the Rest of Us name, I'm launching Clarity Data Studio.
The name confusion was real – people thought we only did courses, not knowing about our consulting work building reports, websites, and more.
The name confusion was real – people thought we only did courses, not knowing about our consulting work building reports, websites, and more.
Reposted by François Michonneau
orbital is such a cool idea — convert your tidymodels or (now) scikit learn model predictions to SQL so you can run them in the database
Announcing Orbital for Python! For Scikit-learn users, this tool transforms your ML pipelines into SQL queries, letting predictions run directly in your database without a #Python environment.
Learn more: posit.co/blog/introdu...
Learn more: posit.co/blog/introdu...
July 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
orbital is such a cool idea — convert your tidymodels or (now) scikit learn model predictions to SQL so you can run them in the database
Reposted by François Michonneau
📢 We're looking for more curators for the second half of 2025! Want to share your voice or know someone who should?
📝 Sign up to curate: rladies.org/form/rocur-s...
📖 Learn what curating involves: guide.rladies.org/rocur/guide/
💌 Nominate someone you admire: rladies.org/form/rocur-n...
📝 Sign up to curate: rladies.org/form/rocur-s...
📖 Learn what curating involves: guide.rladies.org/rocur/guide/
💌 Nominate someone you admire: rladies.org/form/rocur-n...
R-Ladies Rotating Curator Sign-Up - R-Ladies Global
R-Ladies is a world-wide organization to promote gender diversity in the R community
rladies.org
April 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
📢 We're looking for more curators for the second half of 2025! Want to share your voice or know someone who should?
📝 Sign up to curate: rladies.org/form/rocur-s...
📖 Learn what curating involves: guide.rladies.org/rocur/guide/
💌 Nominate someone you admire: rladies.org/form/rocur-n...
📝 Sign up to curate: rladies.org/form/rocur-s...
📖 Learn what curating involves: guide.rladies.org/rocur/guide/
💌 Nominate someone you admire: rladies.org/form/rocur-n...
Reposted by François Michonneau
@dslc.io will be hosting an “Introduction to Positron for Python” workshop on Monday, April 14 @ 2 pm Eastern. To register, check out the “workshop_positron-python” channel in the DSLC Slack (dslc.io/join).
dslc.io
April 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
@dslc.io will be hosting an “Introduction to Positron for Python” workshop on Monday, April 14 @ 2 pm Eastern. To register, check out the “workshop_positron-python” channel in the DSLC Slack (dslc.io/join).
Reposted by François Michonneau
🔊Applications to join as a Carpentries Maintainer close tomorrow, 11 April at midnight (anywhere on Earth).
This is a great opportunity to join a supportive and experienced community, and to get involved in maintaining and improving The Carpentries’ official lessons: carpentries.org/blog/2025/04...
This is a great opportunity to join a supportive and experienced community, and to get involved in maintaining and improving The Carpentries’ official lessons: carpentries.org/blog/2025/04...
Join the 2025 Maintainer Onboarding Cohort!
The Carpentries is preparing to onboard the next cohort of Maintainers. We are delighted that 83 of 111 current Maintainers have chosen to continue in their role for another year, meaning that our nee...
carpentries.org
April 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
🔊Applications to join as a Carpentries Maintainer close tomorrow, 11 April at midnight (anywhere on Earth).
This is a great opportunity to join a supportive and experienced community, and to get involved in maintaining and improving The Carpentries’ official lessons: carpentries.org/blog/2025/04...
This is a great opportunity to join a supportive and experienced community, and to get involved in maintaining and improving The Carpentries’ official lessons: carpentries.org/blog/2025/04...
Reposted by François Michonneau
The recommendations of the Lesson Setup Instructions Task Force were published today. carpentries.org/blog/2025/03... The task force was established to modernise the instructions we ask learners to follow to prepare for a @carpentries.carpentries.org workshop. Thread about its recommendations [1/19]
Updating our Lesson Setup Instructions
The Lesson Setup Instructions Task Force was established in August 2024 to review existing setup instructions for Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry, and Software Carpentry lessons and decide where and...
carpentries.org
March 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The recommendations of the Lesson Setup Instructions Task Force were published today. carpentries.org/blog/2025/03... The task force was established to modernise the instructions we ask learners to follow to prepare for a @carpentries.carpentries.org workshop. Thread about its recommendations [1/19]
Reposted by François Michonneau
🚨 Final Call for Proposals: Deadline Today! 🚨
📢 Attention R users and developers—today, Monday 10th March 2025, is the last chance to submit your proposals for useR! 2025. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to share your expertise and insights with the global R community. 🌍✨
#Rstats
📢 Attention R users and developers—today, Monday 10th March 2025, is the last chance to submit your proposals for useR! 2025. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to share your expertise and insights with the global R community. 🌍✨
#Rstats
March 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
🚨 Final Call for Proposals: Deadline Today! 🚨
📢 Attention R users and developers—today, Monday 10th March 2025, is the last chance to submit your proposals for useR! 2025. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to share your expertise and insights with the global R community. 🌍✨
#Rstats
📢 Attention R users and developers—today, Monday 10th March 2025, is the last chance to submit your proposals for useR! 2025. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to share your expertise and insights with the global R community. 🌍✨
#Rstats
Reposted by François Michonneau
odbc 1.6.0 is now on #rstats CRAN! Includes a new helper for Redshift, a hex sticker (finally!), and many QOL improvements for Databricks, Snowflake, MSSQL, etc.
Read more: odbc.r-dbi.org/news/index.h...
Read more: odbc.r-dbi.org/news/index.h...
March 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
odbc 1.6.0 is now on #rstats CRAN! Includes a new helper for Redshift, a hex sticker (finally!), and many QOL improvements for Databricks, Snowflake, MSSQL, etc.
Read more: odbc.r-dbi.org/news/index.h...
Read more: odbc.r-dbi.org/news/index.h...
Reposted by François Michonneau
🚀 Become a Sponsor of useR! 2025 🚀
UseR! 2025 are seeking sponsors to join us in making this year’s conference unforgettable!
📩 Reach out at [email protected] to find the perfect package for you!
🔗 Check out more details here: user2025.r-project.org
#Rstats #opensource #datascience
UseR! 2025 are seeking sponsors to join us in making this year’s conference unforgettable!
📩 Reach out at [email protected] to find the perfect package for you!
🔗 Check out more details here: user2025.r-project.org
#Rstats #opensource #datascience
February 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🚀 Become a Sponsor of useR! 2025 🚀
UseR! 2025 are seeking sponsors to join us in making this year’s conference unforgettable!
📩 Reach out at [email protected] to find the perfect package for you!
🔗 Check out more details here: user2025.r-project.org
#Rstats #opensource #datascience
UseR! 2025 are seeking sponsors to join us in making this year’s conference unforgettable!
📩 Reach out at [email protected] to find the perfect package for you!
🔗 Check out more details here: user2025.r-project.org
#Rstats #opensource #datascience
Reposted by François Michonneau
Scaling Up With R and Arrow by Nic Crane, Jonathan Keane and Neal Richardson
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/packages.html#scaling-up-with-r-and-arrow
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/packages.html#scaling-up-with-r-and-arrow
February 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Scaling Up With R and Arrow by Nic Crane, Jonathan Keane and Neal Richardson
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/packages.html#scaling-up-with-r-and-arrow
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/packages.html#scaling-up-with-r-and-arrow
Reposted by François Michonneau
Which of these features would you like us to implement first in the nanoparquet R package?
See options below.
#RStats #parquet nanoparquet.r-lib.org
See options below.
#RStats #parquet nanoparquet.r-lib.org
Read and Write Parquet Files
Self-sufficient reader and writer for flat Parquet files. Can read most Parquet data types. Can write many R data types, including factors and temporal types. See docs for limitations.
nanoparquet.r-lib.org
February 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Which of these features would you like us to implement first in the nanoparquet R package?
See options below.
#RStats #parquet nanoparquet.r-lib.org
See options below.
#RStats #parquet nanoparquet.r-lib.org
Reposted by François Michonneau
I’m hiring for a Senior Data Scientist / Data Developer role at EvE Bio, a non-profit! It requires substantial #rstats experience, including #Shiny.
It’s a hybrid role located in Durham, NC.
If you are interested and qualified, please apply or reach out to me w Qs.
jobs.lever.co/convergentre...
It’s a hybrid role located in Durham, NC.
If you are interested and qualified, please apply or reach out to me w Qs.
jobs.lever.co/convergentre...
Convergent Research - Senior Data Scientist / Data Developer
Durham NC’s EvE Bio is seeking a Senior Data Scientist/Developer to join our data science team as its second member. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience with R and Shiny programming, ...
jobs.lever.co
February 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I’m hiring for a Senior Data Scientist / Data Developer role at EvE Bio, a non-profit! It requires substantial #rstats experience, including #Shiny.
It’s a hybrid role located in Durham, NC.
If you are interested and qualified, please apply or reach out to me w Qs.
jobs.lever.co/convergentre...
It’s a hybrid role located in Durham, NC.
If you are interested and qualified, please apply or reach out to me w Qs.
jobs.lever.co/convergentre...
Reposted by François Michonneau
Why does @weare.rladies.org have less than 1000 followers? We can do better than this #rstats folks. It is a terrific account to follow because every week not only we get to know a new member of the #RLadies community but we also get to read their R favorites, tips, and jokes.
February 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Why does @weare.rladies.org have less than 1000 followers? We can do better than this #rstats folks. It is a terrific account to follow because every week not only we get to know a new member of the #RLadies community but we also get to read their R favorites, tips, and jokes.
Reposted by François Michonneau
It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.
February 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.
Reposted by François Michonneau
We're excited to announce Catherine Nelson as keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)! Author of "Software Engineering for Data Scientists," she'll share how data scientists can benefit from software engineering best practices! Sept 16-18 in Atlanta.
pos.it/conf
#PositConf2025 #Python #rstats #pydata
pos.it/conf
#PositConf2025 #Python #rstats #pydata
February 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
We're excited to announce Catherine Nelson as keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)! Author of "Software Engineering for Data Scientists," she'll share how data scientists can benefit from software engineering best practices! Sept 16-18 in Atlanta.
pos.it/conf
#PositConf2025 #Python #rstats #pydata
pos.it/conf
#PositConf2025 #Python #rstats #pydata
Reposted by François Michonneau
Folks in data rescue and archiving initiatives may find this #RStats package from @ropensci.org useful: `gitcellar` downloads and archives all repos, issues, and PRs from a GitHub organization in one shot: docs.ropensci.org/gitcellar/ #DataRescue @datarescue2025.bsky.social
Helps Download Archives of GitHub Repositories
Provide functionality to download archives (backups) for all repositories in a GitHub organization (useful for backups!).
docs.ropensci.org
February 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Folks in data rescue and archiving initiatives may find this #RStats package from @ropensci.org useful: `gitcellar` downloads and archives all repos, issues, and PRs from a GitHub organization in one shot: docs.ropensci.org/gitcellar/ #DataRescue @datarescue2025.bsky.social
Reposted by François Michonneau
When I was a sysadmin, we would say that anyone who asked for root shouldn’t have it.
February 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
When I was a sysadmin, we would say that anyone who asked for root shouldn’t have it.
Reposted by François Michonneau
We’re thrilled to offer Opportunity Scholarships for posit::conf(2025)!
These aim to support folks typically underrepresented at similar confs.
If you know anyone who'd be a good candidate – perhaps you! – apply by Feb 21: pos.it/opp-scholar-2025
#DataScience #positconf2025 #rstats #pydata
These aim to support folks typically underrepresented at similar confs.
If you know anyone who'd be a good candidate – perhaps you! – apply by Feb 21: pos.it/opp-scholar-2025
#DataScience #positconf2025 #rstats #pydata
Apply to be an Opportunity Scholar at posit::conf(2025) - Posit
We are excited to announce Posit will provide 40 Opportunity Scholarships so they can attend posit::conf(2025) in Atlanta, Georgia.
pos.it
January 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
We’re thrilled to offer Opportunity Scholarships for posit::conf(2025)!
These aim to support folks typically underrepresented at similar confs.
If you know anyone who'd be a good candidate – perhaps you! – apply by Feb 21: pos.it/opp-scholar-2025
#DataScience #positconf2025 #rstats #pydata
These aim to support folks typically underrepresented at similar confs.
If you know anyone who'd be a good candidate – perhaps you! – apply by Feb 21: pos.it/opp-scholar-2025
#DataScience #positconf2025 #rstats #pydata
Reposted by François Michonneau
The tidymodels group has an #rstats summer internship position this year.
The focus is on feature selection tools. All of the information is in the blog post below.
We look forward to seeing your applications!
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01...
The focus is on feature selection tools. All of the information is in the blog post below.
We look forward to seeing your applications!
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01...
tidymodels Internship for 2025 - Tidyverse
The tidymodels team is sponsoring a summer internship in 2025.
www.tidyverse.org
January 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The tidymodels group has an #rstats summer internship position this year.
The focus is on feature selection tools. All of the information is in the blog post below.
We look forward to seeing your applications!
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01...
The focus is on feature selection tools. All of the information is in the blog post below.
We look forward to seeing your applications!
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01...